• cdf12345@lemm.eeEnglish
    18·
    8 months ago

    This is cool to look at but its worthless to use to learn Morse code. Actually learning requires recognizing audio patterns not quickly translating characters into words from a flowchart.

    • XTL
      2·
      8 months ago

      I think the charts were meant for an inexperienced or almost untrained operator (civilian in wartime e.g.) that could write down what they heard, then use a chart to decode it and maybe even send a reply.

      No sources, though.

  • FuryMaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    8 months ago

    How does one distinguish between “Tea” and “X”?

    Both are dash dot dot dash.

    Are there gaps between words or letters?

    • avguser@lemmy.world
      18·
      8 months ago

      International Morse code is composed of five elements:

      • short mark, dot or dit: “dit duration” is one time unit long
      • long mark, dash or dah: three time units long
      • inter-element gap between the dits and dahs within a character: one dot duration or one unit long
      • short gap (between letters): three time units long
      • medium gap (between words): seven time units long (formerly five)
      • prayer@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        8 months ago

        So in between every sound is a silent dot, between letter a silent dash, and every word ~2 silent dashes

  • ccunning@lemmy.world
    5·
    8 months ago

    This is awesome.

    If anyone could explain the reasoning behind it; that would be even more awesome. It always just seemed random to me.

    • avguser@lemmy.world
      8·
      8 months ago

      It’s effectively a Huffman tree based off the frequency letters occur in the English language used to minimize the overall symbol length duration of each letter in a message.

    • hesburgerOPM
      43·
      8 months ago

      If anyone could explain the reasoning behind it

      The reason behind morse code? It was created to transfer messages through telegraphs